Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent

“Managed copy” has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009 . Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to make one of these copies, rendering the whole scheme pretty pointless until consumers purchase the new players (available at some point in 2010) that are capable of contacting an authorization server over the Internet, verifying that this particular disc is allowed to make a copy, making the copy, then slathering the whole thing in a heavy marinade of DRM. Oh, and no one said that these managed copies have to be free, either.

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 P2P News

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